WINDOWS XP ACTIVATION

[Guest]

About 1.5 mouths ago I did a repair install of windows XP Home Edition and it
had me had me reactivate my windows everything worked just fine. I have not
made any changes to my system now when I try to login in it says I have to
reactivate windows and when I click ok to reactivate it just logs back off
and take me to the login screen and will not let me activate or login is
there a way to activate windows with out getting to the activation wizard?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Possible Resolution:

Boot into "Safe Mode" by pressing (F8) during a reboot.

Go to Start > Run and type: regsvr32 regwizc.dll , and hit enter.
Then go again to Start > Run and type: regsvr32 licdll.dll , and hit enter again.

Apparently, and I can't say how, the above files became unregistered.

Additional Troubleshooting:

You are prompted to activate Windows every time you restart your computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;312295

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| About 1.5 mouths ago I did a repair install of windows XP Home Edition and it
| had me had me reactivate my windows everything worked just fine. I have not
| made any changes to my system now when I try to login in it says I have to
| reactivate windows and when I click ok to reactivate it just logs back off
| and take me to the login screen and will not let me activate or login is
| there a way to activate windows with out getting to the activation wizard?

 

[Guest]

I try to boot up in safe mode and it tells me that this version of windows
has to be activated and you can't activate in safe mode please reboot in
normal mode and activate windows

 

[Guest]

Altern use the telephone and make a call and activate over the telephone.

 

[Guest]

Ok if I know what phone number to call I would. Also if I can't get to the
activation screen how will I be able to put in the activation code.

 

[Alias]

Ah, the joys of a program that only inconveniences paying customers and
does nothing to stop piracy ...

Try doing a clean install. Ain't MS wonderful?

Alias

 

[kurttrail]

About 1.5 mouths ago I did a repair install of windows XP Home
Edition and it had me had me reactivate my windows everything worked
just fine. I have not made any changes to my system now when I try to
login in it says I have to reactivate windows and when I click ok to
reactivate it just logs back off and take me to the login screen and
will not let me activate or login is there a way to activate windows
with out getting to the activation wizard?

Welcome to the wonderful world of copy-protection! And this is just the
beginning! Copy-protection is just gonna get worse and worse over the
years.

Try a repair install.

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

 

[Steve N.]

Ah, the joys of a program that only inconveniences paying customers and
does nothing to stop piracy ...

Try doing a clean install. Ain't MS wonderful?

Alias

I'd try a repair install first.

Steve N.

 

[Ghostrider]

Welcome to the wonderful world of copy-protection! And this is just the
beginning! Copy-protection is just gonna get worse and worse over the
years.

Try a repair install.

It has been 18 years since Lotus and Ashton-Tate gave up all
copy protection of their 2 popular products - Lotus 1-2-3 and
dBase 3, respectively. The pendulum should start to swing the
other way for Windows but it might now already be too late for
Microsoft, as it was for both of them in 1987-88. Lotus 1-2-3
had no competition other than a fresh application named Excel
but Lotus disappeared in the 1990's. Both Linux and Open Office
are only getting better with each revision. Those who fail to
heed the lessons from history will only re-live similar fates.

 

[Bob I]

You really need to get your facts straight!

http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/products/product2.nsf/wdocs/123fact

 

[Guest]

I tried the repair install and i get the same problem

 

[Guest]

Ok I've tried evrey thing and sill get the same problem any other things I
can try Im at a loss here

 

[Ghostrider]

You really need to get your facts straight!

http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/products/product2.nsf/wdocs/123fact

Sorry, Bob, but it seems you were not around in the late 1980's.
Lotus 1-2-3, Ver. 2 and 3 had copy protection using a companion
diskette. With Version 3, Lotus removed the copy protection. Lotus
was an independent company at that time. It was with the advent of
Microsoft Office and Windows 386, Windows 3.0 and Windows 95 that
Excel became the predominant spreadsheet. IBM eventually bought
Lotus, sometime in the mid to late 1990's. Returning to the theme
of the thread, those of us who used and adopted Excel, we never
returned to Lotus, even though it was a better product for in the
early 1990's. Glad to know that IBM has released Lotus 1-2-3, Rev.
9.8 under SmartSuite. (Not going to comment about IBM's woes during
this time span. Had too many friends who went searching for jobs in
the 1990's, after IBM PC-DOS and also OS/2.)

And FYI, when Ashton-Tate releasaed dBase 3.0, it had removed the
copy protection that it had incorporated in dBase 2.0. dBase 3.0
was updated to dBase 4.0 but Ashton-Tate suffered through the
failure of its Multi-Mate word processing program under competition
from Microsoft Word and Wordperfect. Ashton-Tate was later bought
by Borland. While dBase 5.X still has a following, myself included,
and can still be used in the DOS box, Microsoft bought FoxBase at
the same time and developed it into Visual FoxPro.

Interesting turn of events, isn't it. But history will repeat. Part
of the B-school curriculum.

 

[Bob I]

Sorry, I used version 3 and also WordPerfect too back then. And
copy-protection was around then and it is still around now. All the
whining in the world won't change it. Only difference is there are more
methods available to the vendor now.

 

[kurttrail]

Sorry, I used version 3 and also WordPerfect too back then. And
copy-protection was around then and it is still around now. All the
whining in the world won't change it. Only difference is there are
more methods available to the vendor now.

And they are all flawed, and all of them end up screwing paying
customers more than stoping piracy.

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com/mscommunity
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

 

[kurttrail]

I tried the repair install and i get the same problem

That sucks!

Try deleting the wpa files from recovery console, and if that doesn't
work delete them, and do a scan disk.

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_rec.htm

C:\WINDOWS\system32\wpa.dbl
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wpa.bak

If none of that works, then your best bet is to install XP on another
physical harddrive (buy or borrow) so you can back up your files you
don't want to lose, and then do a clean install.

Microsoft should be held financially responsible for every person
screwed by PA. MS knows that paying customers like you get screwed by
PA, and they just don't care.

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com/mscommunity
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"